Dr Anna Kozak – curator emerita at the National Museum in Warsaw, where she used to work on modern and nineteenth-century drawings of the northern schools. She has written about nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch and German art. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions and written their catalogues, including 100 of the Finest Drawings from Polish Collections (1980), Kraina Thomy. Dzieła Hansa Thomy (1839–1924) w zbiorach polskich [The world of Thoma. Hans Thoma’s (1839–1924) works in Polish collections] (1990), Mistrzowie rysunku niemieckiego od końca XVIII do początku XX wieku [The masters of German drawing from the end of the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries] (1991), Master European Drawings from Polish Collections (1993), Świat fantazji Maxa Klingera [The world of Max Klinger’s fantasies] (1994), Obrazy natury. Adolf Dressler i pejzażyści śląscy drugiej połowy wieku XIX [Paintings of nature. Adolf Dressler and the Silesian landscape painters of the second half of the nineteenth century] (1997), Sztuka cenniejsza niż złoto [Art more precious than gold] (1999), Rysunki i akwarele okresu romantyzmu niemieckiego [Drawings and watercolours from the era of German Romanticism] (2002), Impresjoniści niemieccy. Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt. Ryciny, rysunki, obrazy w zbiorach polskich [German Impressionists. Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt. Etchings, drawings, paintings in Polish collections] (2005), Orientalizm w malarstwie, rysunku i grafice w Polsce w XIX i 1. połowie XX wieku [Orientalism in Polish painting, drawing and graphic art in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries] (2008) and Rembrandt. Rysunki i ryciny w zbiorach polskich [Rembrandt. Drawings and etchings in Polish collections] (2009). She is currently focussing her research on Nazarenism in nineteenthcentury Silesian art.
